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GUESTS
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Charlie Guy is the
Canadian National Director for International Child Care. He
interacts with people at all levels internationally, utilizing his
training and 30 years of business experience to full
advantage throughout the organization.
http://www.intlchildcare.org/
http://www.intlchildcare.org/haiti.html
Wesley Romulus is
the Vice President for the Central South West Region of Le College
Boreal in Ontario. Born, raised and educated in
Haiti, he acquired his teaching credentials and went on to teach for a
number of years at both the elementary and secondary systems
in different parts of Haiti. Today Romulus lives in Oakville,
Ontario but continues to visit Haiti.
http://www.borealc.on.ca/
Wesley Charles has
been the National Director for World Vision in Haiti since 1998. With a
multidisciplinary education (management, law, psychology, theology), he
has twenty years’ experience working in social communication,
teaching and management of community development projects and
organizations. He is a member of the Canadian Network of International
Development Consultants.
http://www.worldvision.ca/home/about-us/media/
-news-releases/?search=john%20charles%20-
wesley&C=466&I=1039
http://www.worldvision.ca/home/about-us/media/news-
releases/?search=haiti&C=466&I=675
http://www.worldvision.ca/home/about-us/media/news-
releases/?search=charles%20wesley&C=466&I=1042
Pierre Esperandieu
is National Director of Haiti for Campus Crusade for Christ.
He has a passion for seeing his fellow countrymen come to Christ. He
was born and raised in Haiti, attended a Bible college in Jamaica and
subsequently returned to Haiti in 1995 to begin his ministry with
Campus Crusade. Esperandieu and his wife Dianne have hosted several
BVBC missions teams and currently live in the capital city of
Port-au-Prince.
http://www.newlifeworldaid.org/haiti.html
Beth Reimer is
Director of Marketing and Communications for Christian Blind Mission
International, the world’s leading organization
rescuing and restoring people trapped in poverty by
disability, regardless of race, gender, age or religion.
www.cbmicanada.org
http://cbmi.nexvision.com/news_events5.asp
Susie Scott Krabacher
is founder and president of the Sharing and Mercy Foundation dedicated
to saving, feeding and educating the poorest of the
poor in Haiti. Susie spends nearly every waking hour working
with Haitian children and draws no salary.
www.haitichildren.com
James R.H. Turnbull was
appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice on feb 25, 2005. Mr.
Justice Turnbull received a Bachelor of Laws in 1970, and a Masters of
Law in 1978, both from Osgoode Hall Law School. He was admitted to the
Law Society of Upper Canada in 1973. Prior to his
appointment, he was a partner and former managing partner in a private
firm where he specialized in administrative law and civil litigation,
including personal injury, medical malpractice and commercial
litigation. He also acted as a mediator. In the past, Mr. Justice
Turnbull has served as President and Trustee of the Hamilton Law
Association. He is a member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association,
the Advocates Society, the Hamilton Law Association and the American
Trial Lawyers Association. He is a frequent lecturer.
http://www.mfmi.org/
Renee Leclerc
is a Corporal with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, International
Peacekeeping Branch.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews-
/20051220/rcmp_death_051220/20051220?hub=CTVNewsAt11
HOW
TO HELP
HAITI
Christian Blind Mission
International
http://www.cbmicanada.org
Mercy & Sharing
Foundation
http://www.haitichildren.com/donate.html
World Vision Haiti
http://www.worldvision.ca/home/get-involved/
http://www.worldvision.ca/home/programs-and-projects/
International Child Care
http://www.intlchildcare.org/icc-en/index.html?lang=en#
RELATED NEWS
LINKS
From Dept of
State; Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs; March 2006
"The first round for
the election of the President and the Parliament took place peacefully
on Feb 7, 2006. An impressive turnout estimated at over 60% of
registered voters caused some logistical difficulties rapidly overcome.
Overall, those elections have been considered free, honest and
democratic by the national and international observers. Rene Preval,
former President (1996-2001) and former ally to Aristide, won the
presidential election with 51,15%. Partial results had shown he fell
short of the majority and triggered demonstrations against alleged
fraud. The later decision of the Electoral Council not to count blank
ballots gave the victory to Preval. The legislature will likely be
broadly representative with most of the senators' and deputies' seats
decided during the run-off scheduled on March 19, 2006" From
MiamiHerald.com " Two members of Congress,
after meeting with the President-elect of Haiti, expressed high hopes
for that beleaguered country's economic turnaround. Haitian
manufacturers estimate that the aid bill, aptly called HOPE, would
create about 40 000 textile jobs over the next two year. It would be
more than twice the number the country currently has. 'We see this as a
new beginning and new opportunities', said Rep. Waters who flew to the
Caribbean nation on Monday, March 20, 2006 to affirm the United States
commitment to Haiti and Preval."
New Haiti leader seeks
boost in $1 billion aid plan – March 30, 2006
http://today.reuters.com/investingfinanceArticle.aspx?-
type=bondsNews&storyID=2006-03 -30T162443Z_
01_N30270325_RTRIDST_0_ECONOMY-HAITI
AID-UPDATE-2.XML
Haiti Badly Needs More
Police –March 30, 2006 http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3758422.html
More human skulls
found in Haiti – March 27, 2006
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas
/03/27/haiti.skullsfound.ap/
Haiti: A country in
turmoil – Feb. 23, 2006
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/haiti/
SUSIE
KRABACHER’S STORY as told to Lorna Dueck
Susie, Are you really
ready to have these people adopt babies?
Yes, we don’t charge for
adoptions - not a dime. It’s
best to go through the government of Haiti. We’re starting as
soon as the new president takes his seat. This is impossible without
the government’s aid and now we believe the government will
become stable. - The average time it takes for adoption is 9-12 months
– my dream for every one of the orphans is to be placed. We
have 3 orphanages, 6 schools and a hospital, taking care of 3300
children. They have all been legally abandoned and some are handicapped
and terminally ill.
150 ready for adoption –
about 60 % are severely handicapped and terminally ill - when we got
them some are so far malnourished they had their systems shut down and
disabilities resulted.
She was on Oprah a couple of times
– and a lot of people are really interested in adopting
handicapped kids.
What spiritual realities
do you encounter in this work?
We have been under spiritual attack
especially for the last ten years because I believe in bringing hope
for a Savior is really stepping on Satan’s toes
We’re stepping on Voodoo - a
lot of people think it’s a cool religion, but it
wouldn’t be possible to exaggerate the effect of Voodoo on
the country
I have 150 employees --every time they
are sick they come running in saying someone has put a curse on them
and this response even after doing daily Bible Studies with them
Every time I go into the morgue there
are vats of human body parts. Remember the Miami woman who went down to
Haiti and came back with a human head in her suitcase two weeks ago?
Even having our funerals - for my own
self I do it so these little kids know they were loved.
How do you spiritually
equip yourself?
I am an avid studier of my Bible
– there are day’s depression overcomes me
– it’s overwhelming. Paul, the apostle, is my hero.
I think of myself like him “I was the worst of
sinners” - that is why God chose me to do this work.
How did you come to
follow Jesus?
I became a Christian when I was 8. My
grandfather, from 4-8 years old, raped me. When my mom finally caught
him I knew why - it was because I constantly prayed. I prayed as he did
it, after he did it. Due to lots of tragedy and confused boundaries my
mom lost her mind after that and so I went to many foster homes.
As time went by, I lost all sense of
boundaries and lost God and left him in the dust…
My brother was showing real signs of
homosexuality and he was only 12. He had been raped too and I could see
him falling apart and I wanted him out of the house. So when Playboy
came along it seemed like the only answer, I was only 17 and I posed
nude. Playboy is not a good thing for anyone. Not for those who look at
it or for men and women who fashion themselves after it. However look
at its popularity – its one of Satan’s greatest
tools.
I decided in my mind that it was okay
and so my boundaries changed bit by bit. Playboy was my agent and I did
75 different photo shoots with them and traveled all over the world
representing them. I worked with them for 10 years and I was thrown
into the middle of every kind of sin you could imagine.
Satan brought me to the lowest low you
could ever want – I married one of America’s Most
Wanted Men. He had five identities, I was married to him for two years,
and coming back from a European trip to Aspen we were stopped at a
roadblock by FBI and Aspen police and they pulled him out of the car by
another name. I yelled, “You’ve got the wrong guy
“– but the sheriff knew me and said
“Susie, this is not who you think it is”.
My husband took all my money and put
it into another account. I ended up walking up and down the streets of
Aspen and knocked on doors looking for cleaning jobs and took work as a
maid. On the third day of knocking on doors, a paraplegic woman in a
wheelchair took me in and I worked for her.
My husband was threatening me from
jail and I had no money for a lawyer to get a divorce.
I went to the nearest
lawyer’s office and traded cooking and cleaning for the
divorce lawyer’s help. The next day he had 40 shirts in his
office for me to iron.
That’s Joe! That was the
upturn. We’ve been married 17 years.
I met Jesus when I started going to
church (the day after we got engaged). I got up and said, I’m
going to church, and I don’t care. He hadn’t been
to church since he was a toddler and he came with me to church. It
happened to be communion Sunday (by the way, we still go to that
church). Joe (he is 6.10 tall) thought he was getting invited to come
to the front. He was completely hung over at the time. He was given the
communion plate anyway, and he came to the Lord in spite of his state.
That was 17 years ago and today he is a mighty man of God!
I moved through the church thing for
about 3-4 years until I got the GRACE thing. One day it finally hit me.
Up until then I was on a guilt trip with God. Something in my heart
caused me to imagine myself standing before God. All I’d have
to say is “thanks God, I had a great life and I was
happy” That didn’t seem good enough to me
…
So I thought, “well God
– what if I could say- I have held the poor and
that’s why you made me”.
What would I need to do to be able to
say that? The first time I looked into the eyes of a dying child
– I realized I was helping an angel go to heaven.
The first time I slept in a slum and I
saw painful death – I felt equal to some form of humanity, I
never felt I fit in until I really fit in with the poor. It was
devastating for me to see it
The believe that the reason I had to
go through such hell as a child was to be doing what I do now.
How do you sustain
yourself in this work?
The Holy Spirit is what has really,
really equipped me -- He gives us the supernatural words to be
protected and sustained in what I do. Every day I put myself in a
little corner to have my prayer time. Every day I pray and read my
bible. I know when I’m with my Lord I’m invincible.
I truly believe those prayers, and prayers of my girlfriends, and of my
church and especially of little kids, - the prayer makes this happen.
God took my childhood away so I could
be an adult kid – I really, really can be a kid with them.
I’ve been doing that for 12 years now.
What are the spiritual
realities you encounter?
I see the demon possessed. A child in
my care now, Junior, bit me and fought me and the sounds that came out
of his mouth - I can’t even tell you. I felt someone had
raped the child. When the government heard a child was in my care that
had not been bribed to me – they took him from me and
demanded my generator in exchange. Four months. Later I went back to
the government building and I heard screaming from the building. As I
walked downstairs, the screaming got louder and I saw something moving
in an outdoor crowd of pigs. It was Junior, living with those pigs. I
crawled under the barbed wire and took him – and
he’s been in my possession ever since. I’ve had him
7 years, and I’m certain he is demon possessed and we just
can’t seem to pray it out.
My bible study group and I are going
to try and fast and pray now for Junior.
I have twice been asked to be an
Observer of the elections – it’s a real honor.
Aristide’s was a corrupt election, I saw it.
A year ago when Aristide fled the
country, the Chimera or secret police service (the ghost) held 62 of my
handicapped and terminally ill orphans and employee’s
hostage. I had to fly in from Aspen and negotiate for them.
Can you comment on this
election?
This one – I don’t
know what to say on this election. I’ve been completely
confounded by this election. They have found partially burned ballot
boxes … I don’t know, but am praying with all my
heart this works for the sake of justice.
Who sent you to observe?
Organization of American States
– honored observer and traveled observer.
What’s your
opinion of the new government?
Preval was worthless last time he was
President. This time he says he’s learned and I have to admit
he has nothing to do with Aristide this time If he has truly separated
from Aristide, we have hope.
Aristide made Voodoo the national
religion just before he left. The Church defrocked him
The New York Sun – 2003/4
– it talks about the sacrifice of a child (We
have the article)
A child was taken from my abandoned
child unit and sacrificed. I had just left the day before. It was a big
story. Aristide was involved in that.
How dangerous has it
become for you?
March 2/05 – The Wall St.
Journal reported an assassination attempt on my life by the Chimera. By
the grace of God, my command of Creole got perfect that night and I was
able to talk to the guy and he had mercy because I had helped one of
his friends. I even got my car back washed.
I pray every day on my knees that
Preval will seek Jesus. It will be only thing that will heal this
country - the only thing. A Christian coalition party even ran
– loads of money was donated but they came in 17 out of 33.
But God has a bigger plan -- He can change Preval’s heart?
I would stake my heart on the fact
that if godly men and women rule that country, it will thrive. The
poverty will go away. SIN rules the land. Haiti is a graveyard for
missionaries. If something does not change, this is fertile ground for
terrorism – poverty breeds anger, and anger breeds hatred and
that’s exactly what we have here – the Haitians
think America can help them but they don’t – and so
they hate Americans right now.
In every effort – corruption
has stood between the poor and us.
I have been sued so many times by
government officials – they want my land, my truck.
Why has the Press not
reported you are a Christian?
I always, always tell the reporters I
am a Christian and Satan does not allow it to get in the news. The last
time I went to Haiti (because of the election) many people wanted to
travel with me, and the only thing I asked was “please tell
people that I just want God to be proud of his servant”. I
want people to see God in me; I want to never waste an opportunity for
god.
Even Oprah cut me off when I tried to
say my testimony.
The guy who started EBay founded a
production company and now they are doing a movie on my life. For a
whole year I fought back and forth that my Christian story be in there
and that they can tell my story about the rape when I was little -
everything. The only thing I ask is that you represent my life now as a
Christian – and it blew the deal – but I prayed and
prayed and my pastor called and we got signed. The testimony will be in
the movie.
I just finished my book, Angels
of a lower flight – it has gone to editor but I
don’t have a publisher yet.
The book is about coming back to God
– its my testimony to my Savior - it is really open and
straightforward – even forgiven sin has consequences and I
talk about it and also the blessings. I have seen a lot of pain. My
brother was gay, got Aids, suffered, and killed himself at age 26.
Do you have children of
your own?
We made a conscious decision to not
have children because I could not leave a child to go care for those in
Haiti
Is it okay to you that
your faith is quiet?
Jesus never went out into the world
and said ‘I’m a Christian’, He just went
out on their level - if I went in shouting ‘I’m a
Christian’ – they would never hang out with me.they
would feel I’m a threat.
©2006 Lorna Dueck/ListenUp
TV, Feb 21, 2006
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